Mal Goode Reporting

The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer

By: Liann Tsoukas, Rob Ruck

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Hardcover | 23 April 2024

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Mal Goode (1908-1995) became network news's first African American correspondent when ABC News hired him in 1962. Raised in Homestead and Pittsburgh, he worked in the mills, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, and went on to become a journalist for the Pittsburgh Courier and later for local radio. With his basso profundo voice resonating on the airwaves, Goode challenged the police, politicians, and segregation, while providing Black listeners a voice that captured their experience. Race prevented him from breaking into television until Jackie Robinson dared ABC to give him a chance. Goode was uncompromising in his belief that network news needed Black voices and perspectives if it were to authentically reflect the nation's complexities. His success at ABC initiated the slow integration of network news. Goode's life and work are remarkable in their own right, but his struggles and achievements also speak to larger issues of American life and the African American experience.

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This is a stellar biography of an important figure in the history of African American and US television journalism. It also illuminates the complicated process by which a working-class Black man made the transition from wage-earning proletariat to salaried member of the African American professional class.--Joseph Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University

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